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In the building: Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby,
Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan
Online: Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh
Opening and website launch: Friday 10 July, 6pm
The Adam Art Gallery has invited nine New Zealand
artists, designers and writers to produce new works
that respond to our uncertain times.
Using the unique architectural structures of the Adam
Art Gallery – situated at Victoria University’s Kelburn
campus – and the online space of the gallery’s website,
the artists have been asked to produce works that
speculate the future – in the context of the political
realities of our contemporary world.
Exhibition curator Laura Preston says the exhibition
will showcase innovative ideas from nine young artists,
each responding in their own way to the current sociopolitical
climate.
“The artists’ projects will act as a series of propositions for
embracing this time of uncertainty, where structures and
systems that we have come to know are being brought
into focus and redefined—from the mechanisms of the
capitalist system and the imminent risks to the environment,
to the modernist idea of progress,” she says.
She says the exhibition will consider the potential of both
the gallery and the web to act as sites that reflect on the shape
of power, and to consider alternatives to present institutions.
“The exhibition will also respond to the university as a site
for research and critical thinking, and as a forum for the
revisioning of art histories,” says Preston.
Accompanied by a public programme of night talks, a work-
shop and sound event, the Adam Art Gallery will become
an active site of discussion and a resource for the future.